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Tamara Winfrey Harris
“Society has always been willing to be titillated by women. It has not historically valued women who titillate. This has not changed.”
Tamara Winfrey Harris, The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America

Tamara Winfrey Harris
“Reprimanding women for, as Harvey says, “being the masters of ‘handling it,’” robs us of our accomplishments while convincing vulnerable men that their manhood is dependent on the weakness of women.13 This is particularly damaging in the Black community, which faces an even broader achievement gap between men and women than do other races. (For instance, women make up 66 percent of African Americans completing bachelor’s degrees and 71 percent of those completing master’s degrees.) Forcing Black women to justify their success to partners, who should be their biggest cheerleaders, is a troubling message for both Black women and men.”
Tamara Winfrey Harris, The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America

Tamara Winfrey Harris
“Hair has been a lightning rod for enforcement of White standards of beauty. And reactions to Black women’s natural hair help illustrate the broader disdain for Black appearance. While Black hair can have a variety of textures, most tends to be curly, coily, or nappy. It grows out and up and not down. It may not shine. It may be cottony or wiry. It is likely more easily styled in an Afro puff than a smooth chignon. For centuries, Black women have been told that these qualities make their hair unsightly, unprofessional, and uniquely difficult to manage.”
Tamara Winfrey Harris, The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America

Tamara Winfrey Harris
“In 1784, Thomas Jefferson praised the skin color, “flowing hair,” and “elegant symmetry of form” possessed by White people, writing that Black men prefer the comeliness of White women “as uniformly as is the preference of the [orangutan] for the Black women over those of his own species.”
Tamara Winfrey Harris, The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America

Tamara Winfrey Harris
“The freak-out over low Black marriage rates is connected to fears about the disappearance of Black families. And women, more so than men, are conditioned to be the keepers of family and culture. Black women viewed to be abdicating that responsibility are thought to be selling out in a way that men (who, when they date outside the race, get their own share of grief) are not. Hooking up with “the (White) man” is viewed as dancing with the Devil. And loving a non-Black man of color is reduced to perversion or fetish.”
Tamara Winfrey Harris, The Sisters Are Alright: Changing the Broken Narrative of Black Women in America

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